“I am advising you that counsel of record have been granted leave to withdraw from this matter,” Shelley told the five women and seven men presiding over Levin’s trial.

“Dr. Levin has terminated their services,” the Court of Queen’s Bench judge said.

She said jurors — who spent an entire week without hearing evidence as issues, including Levin’s health, were dealt with in their absence — should not speculate as to why the lawyers wouldn’t continue.

“It is his decision,” Shelley said.

Jurors were sent home a week ago after being told Levin — who was absent from court at the time — had been hospitalized and would be undergoing a medical procedure.

They resumed viewing a videotaped statement Levin gave to a sex crimes detective in March, 2010, after the first of several former patients made a complaint to police.

Levin, 73, is on trial on allegations he sexually assaulted 10 male patients dating back to 1999.

In the video, the former psychiatrist with the South African military told Det. Dave Burke he would manipulate some patients’ privates as a method of testing for erectile dysfunction.

In the lengthy interview, Burke showed Levin two secretly taped videos taken by one of the former patients with a spy camera wristwatch.

Levin said he would not normally conduct the procedure on multiple occasions “unless the patient complained of various problems relating to (erectile dysfunction).”

He also said a psychiatrist would not recognize it as a medical procedure, as it wouldn’t be in their normal area of training, nor would most Canadian physicians.

Burke asked where police might find a doctor who would look at the spy camera videos and not consider it inappropriate conduct.

“They are in South Africa at least ... and in the United States,” he said.